Mahmud Shevket Pasha

Mahmud Shevket Pasha (1856-11 June 1913) was the Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire from 23 January to 11 June 1913, succeeding Kamil Pasha and preceding Said Halim Pasha.

Biography
Mahmud Shevket Pasha was born in 1856 in Baghdad, Baghdad Eyalet, Ottoman Empire, and he joined the Ottoman Army in 1882 as a lieutenant. He was educated in France and traveled to the German Empire, training under Colmar von der Goltz and becoming commander of the Ottoman 3rd Army in Kosovo Vilayet. In 1909, he put down counter-revolutionary reactionaries in the 31 March Incident, was responsible for the creation of the Ottoman Air Force in 1911, brought the first automobile to Constantinople, and on 23 January 1913 he was appointed as Grand Vizier to Mehmed V. He was very liberal, and for that reason he joined the Committee of Union and Progress and took part in the Raid on the Sublime Porte. He was assassinated on 11 June 1913 by a relative of the murdered Chief-of-Staff Nazim Pasha in revenge for his death.